LCD Smartie

[Hito Bahadur]

Anyone using LCD Smartie to show FAH stuff. I'd really like it to show EMIII type data, but not certain even how to start this. I finally got that Matrix Orbital screen working after 1 year....lol

 

[Hito Bahadur]

figuring out some of it from this post:

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=44604&page=3


Have the progress bars for a few of my computers scrolling now

 

[AtomicMoose]

PICS!

 

[Hito Bahadur]

Have run into a small problem with its functionality, but I will provide some pics.

 

[FLECOM]

you mean like this?

 

[Hito Bahadur]

Exactly....Mine's boring green LCD, but I am having trouble pulling the data over the network from other computers. It is adding connections but not closing them which is a PITA as it kills access to that computer after a little while.

LCD Smartie has a $File subroutine that allows you to pull a line of text from a file and as long as you provide the path to the file it works across the network, but like stated above, it seems to add multiple connections to networked connections which is causing problems. I would prefer to create a program outside of LCD smartie that would gather the information I need from those computers and put it on the box with the LCD and then LCD smartie could just read the composite file.

The file with the information is unitinfo.txt (in your FAH folder) and has the following information in it:

Current Work Unit
-----------------
Name: p2052_abeta_4mer
Download time: June 7 01:07:36
Due time: July 24 01:07:36
Progress: 77% [|||||||___]


Anyone have any idea how I could write a program that would get this data from multiple networked boxes and put it in a local .txt file and just run as a service pulling this data every 10-30 minutes or so?

 

[FLECOM]

you could write a batch file to do it and run it as a scheduled task or something?

like

del c:\netboxes\*.txt
net use y: \\box1\c$
y:
cd\
cd FAH
copy unitinfo.txt c:\netboxes\unitinfo1.txt
net use y: /delete
net use y: \\box2\c$
y:
cd\
cd FAH
copy unitinfo.txt c:\netboxes\unitinfo2.txt
net use y: /delete

and so on... obviously you would edit that to suit your needs... and if you have an insane amount of boxes it might not work as effectively, but if you run it every 15/30 mins or so it should work fine i guess

 

[Hito Bahadur]

Naw, only about 11 boxes at home, so no sweat. That seems like the easiest approach, easier than remembering how to program in VB.